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If anybody thinks that the days of martyrdom for opinions are passed, let him step out from the conservative ranks wherein he marches, and join a radical wing of the army, or enter a new service altogether. The man who does it will soon find himself a martyr, no matter how conscientious his motives.

Distrust in our ability to surmount obstacles and overcome them prevents us from attaining the height of success, from being proficient at our trades, our professions, and even healing the sick, or reforming the sinner, and encouraging each other heavenward. How much time we waste in doubt and fears that were better used in trying our best to work out the problems before us, whether it be in our household duties, in the work-shop, or in our professions! The admission "I can't," persisted in, is but pronouncing the sentence upon ourselves that holds us from success.

"M. Victor St.

Students of Christian Science acting in the capacity of healers of disease, are asked many and various questions by the uninformed as to their faith and methods. We have invited a few students to note some of these questions, and answers as given by themselves.

In the last number of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal , Dr. Albert Day publishes an article on medical delusion.

The conversion of man to holiness from sin, and the restoration of his body to health from disease, went together in the practice of Jesus the Christ. Otherwise the physical health of the healed would have had no solid basis upon which to rest, for the bodily manifestation rests ever wholly upon the mental state.

—We shall yet open our eyes to this fact in theodicy,—that calling on matter to remove what mortal mind alone is responsible for, is a mistake with grave consequences. —The very opposite teachings of physiology are all that will ever re-open the gates of paradise that beliefs have closed, and reach being in science, where man is upright, pure and free, having no need to consult calendars or clouds to learn the probabilities of the life of an immortal man, or to study brainology to know how much of a man he is.

Among all peoples of all ages known to history there has been held, it is asserted, a positive belief in the continuance of the soul of man past the manifestation in the flesh. And, because this belief has so widely obtained among the children of men, some have concluded that it is the God-given instinct drawing thought to its true destination as unerringly as the wild fowl's flight is directed toward its home through the trackless blue airs of heaven.

The universal prevalence of desire in the human race is a sufficient proof that we have not yet discovered knowledge of the laws of God with respect to the body. To lose consciousness of these was perhaps the beginning of sin.

The frequent allegements, that E. J.